Harnessing the Power of Dreams for Creativity and Growth
Dreams are a powerful economic force, perhaps the most powerful. Understanding and harnessing them can drive creativity, economic growth and profits.Dreams, of course, are also a powerful social and...
View ArticleWhat Am I Teaching in My Creativity Class? Ritual & Play.
I’m about to start the second unit of my Creativity and Capitalism course at Parsons which will focus on ritual and play as the paths to understanding the existential and the deep meaning of...
View ArticleZig Zag Your Way to Creativity--A New Book Out.
Keith Sawyer, the author of Group Genius, has another great book out—Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Creativity. Keith is a giant in the field of creativity research. His Group Genius blew up the...
View Article"Early Enlightenment thinkers wrote about how it is creative character that...
““Early Enlightenment thinkers wrote about how it is creative character that separates humans from the rest of the organic world.”” - Noam Chomsky in the Financial Times March 17 Weekend edition (my...
View ArticleChina Buys Creative Intelligence
I just heard that one of the top book publishers in China, Citic Press, will publish my book, Creative Intelligence. And they are paying a global rate for the book, which is significant for both me and...
View Article"“My own work is on social and political design in peacebuilding especially...
““My own work is on social and political design in peacebuilding especially with creative thinkers in the national security establishment. In that work, we dance around a lot of the themes Nussbaum...
View ArticleWhat Boris Berezovsky Taught Me About Creativity
I once spent a drunken evening with the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky who died mysteriously in London recently. Berezovsky had fled Russia many years ago and feared for his life during his exile....
View ArticleCREATIVE INTELLIGENCE: What Boris Berezovsky Taught Me About Creativity
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE: What Boris Berezovsky Taught Me About Creativity: creativeintelligencebook:I once spent a drunken evening with the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky who died mysteriously in...
View ArticleThe Ceremony of Book Signing
I’ve been signing a lot of books lately and it’s a warm, wonderful ritual that people find rewarding. You would think that in an age of ebooks, the actual physical act of an author signing a book that...
View ArticleHow Did Nick D'Aloisio use Creative Intelligence to Build Summly And Make $30...
In reading the Financial Times’ coverage of the teen entrepreneur Nick D’Aloisio, you can see how he used many Creative Competencies to create his Summly App which Yahoo just bought for $30...
View ArticleWho is Really Creative? Great Review of Creative Intelligence Out of Portland
I just love this review of the book by the Portland Book Review. It captures the message of Creative Intelligence which is that we are ALL creative and can learn to be MORE...
View ArticleWhat Are Our "Better Wants?" A Thought to Ponder Today
Frank Knight, the Chicago School economist wrote: “The chief thing which the common sense individual actually wants is not satisfaction for the wants which he has, but more, and better wants.” To him,...
View ArticleI'm Speaking at Frog
On Wednesday, I’m giving a talk about Creative Intelligence at Frog Design in NYC. These are tumultuous times in the Design/Innovation consultancy business and it will be exciting to talk with these...
View ArticleWas Apple Set Up In China?
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was forced by the Chinese Communist Party to apologize for bad consumer warranty service but the microblogs in China are full of people defending the company—and blaming the...
View ArticleCREATIVE INTELLIGENCE: Was Apple Set Up In China?
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE: Was Apple Set Up In China?: creativeintelligencebook:Apple’s CEO Tim Cook was forced by the Chinese Communist Party to apologize for bad consumer warranty service but the...
View ArticleKorea Buys Creative Intelligence
I just learned that the Book 21 in Korea will pick up the translation rights and publish Creative Intelligence. That’s wonderful. Korea has spent tens of billions of dollars making itself more creative...
View ArticleAmazon's Best Business & Leadership Books of the Month--Creative Intelligence
Check out The Business & Leadership category on...
View ArticleSupport Project H & Emily Pilloton
Very few Social innovation organizations do anything in America. Despite horrendous stats showing many rural areas, urban neighborhoods and Native American reservations having food, housing, education,...
View ArticleA 25-Year Old Dies For Her Calling
Amy Smedinghoff was killed yesterday in Afghanistan delivering books to children in their school. She joined the US Foreign Service three years ago right after Johns Hopkins. Her convoy was hit by a...
View ArticleHeading to Design Day in Oslo
Check it out. A fantastic gathering of designers and business people to talk about key issues of innovation and creativity. I’ll be signing Creative Intelligence books—200 of...
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